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pistolwhip

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now i know everyone shares their water bottles at clubs.its just a part of the whole scene.ive totally stopped the sharing water thing,unless its a good mate of mine and i know hes not sick,then yeah i'll share it.when i caught influenza from someone who shared my water,thats when i chose never to share it again. now i alwayz feel like an idiot when someone asks for a sip.i say "sorry i dont share water".i say it nicely so they dont get offened.you can tell that they are offended.the ones that really need a drink,i ask if they can hold the bottle away and then pour it in ya mouth.they still seem offended.if there mouth touches the bottle,then its theres.the worst would have to be the people with white crap around their mouths who wants a drink.i let them keep the water.
i never got sick till this water crap started.
does this happen to any1 else? or am i just overreacting.
 
Ive seen and had so many discussions by/with people who have 'got' things form being in a club and supposedly sharing their water with someone.
I guess im more worried about the neurotoxicity of the chemicals im ingesting (if and when there is ANY *solid confirming* research actually completed) than being 'damaged' by a lone virus or bug. I guess that sounds non-chalant but this is coming from a person who both offers and accepts half dissolved chupa-chups that are being passed around my entire group friends... ("anyone want a strawberry? im sick of this one!").
There is nothing nicer to me than the look on another perons face when they ask you for that bottle of water and you hand it over. Or the way they look at you as if you are... like.. GOD(!) when you offer a complete stranger a chupa-chup in the middle of the dance floor...
Thats how I justify the risk, in fact I suppose I'm in denial that theres even a risk there cos it hasnt happened to myself or ANYONE I know yet..
In the mean time one of my favourite lines to people sharing my water is: *as they go to take a swig*
"You dont have Hepatitis do you?* and they say 'no, of course not',*big swig*.
"Oh well. you do now..." Perhaps this is not as funny as it sounds. Point taken.
 
yeah i'm with you on the water bottle thing.... not everyone fills them up in the toilet... like, i buy mine and Ele's--- mmmm nice cold refreshing did i say cold ..water. no cordial just the water... i hold it till its empty, i dont mind people politely asking for a sip.... i hate watching someone just pick it up, from wherever it rests, and help themself ... i hate the fact that once i put it down it's gone! but maybe that's just me beind messy.... or an overzealous glassy
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I agree, I have a thing with sharing water bottles...I dont know why, I guess i'm just a bit of a germ freak.
If someone REALLY needs it (looks like they are dehydrating) then I will give them the bottle, but its usually someone else (thanks abbie
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Don't do it... I managed to contract a nasty case of glandular fever at a rave through water bottle sharing. It was an absolute bitch. Coupled with the risk of disease exposure, your immune system is significantly weakened by high serotonin levels. Its a good idea just to forget the sharing.
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there is a simple solution that I like to use... cos I really like being the sharing caring type person... have two water bottles, through a night it is easy to accumulate water bottles. So you just keep one wherever you leave your water bottle normally and say rip the label off... then when some one asks just give them that bottle... SORTED... you don't look like a bastard (even though you aren't if you don't offer) and you dont run the risk of infection...
I to, have contracted flu, glandular fever and some other nasties through water bottle sharing... stick to your own... and if you happen to have a spare chupa chup... give em that instead... hehehe.
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"if you can afford pills, you can afford a damn bottle of water!"
 
Yeah. Ok. Sharing absolutely anything carries some kind of risk. Do you really think water bottles are the most you have to *worry* about?
In a situation much akin to an airplane, you have a couple of thousand human beings all coughing and spluttering(its just that you cant hear them over Mario Picotto), lovingly dripping salty sweat all over each other, picking up their glowsticks that have just fallen on the very same floor that a thousand ravers before them have bounced all over with their shoes(who have been GOD knows where), then proceeding to give their 'new best friend' next to them a face massage with the very same hands. All the time sharing the same air conditioning that is keeping the rest of them breathing, filling their lungs with those nifty little particles of artificial smoke that I've personally come to believe (on so many occasions) smell EXACTLY like over-cooked ANZAC biscuits.
"The fingers that just put that pill in your mouth have been where!?!?"
"Stop waving that piece of raw chicken around cowgirl... you dont wanna give me salmonella... besides, it doesnt look that good under the lasers... and NO!, you cant have a swig of my water unless you're willing to gargle and spit some of my Listerine supply that im secretly carrying in my Calvin Kleins...*HERE*"
This is not a 'bitch' people. Just some humorous(i hope) perspective.
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[This message has been edited by #K9# (edited 11 June 2001).]
 
#k9#....nice way of looking at things, its what we all think but cant be bothered to write and say lol...everything connects to everything in some form of another and its quite funny when people contradict themselves...say a girl might completely refuse a guy sex without a condom but might not have any problem with sharing water. (OK thats like an extreme and there pretty different cases of catching something but it fits the same mold....)
i used to alllllways be so freaked out about sharing food, drinks and everything, my friends used to get so annoyed cuz they'd all share things etc but i guess i just got over it...
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(it prob has soething due to the fact my mum is an infection control person at a hospital lol!)
bottom line is...well there isnt one really, but i share water!!! ahah
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The exchange of bodily fluids carries a much higher risk than airborne or contact routes of disease transmission. Most micobes cant survive in the atmosphere (with a few notable exceptions) and the skin is quite difficult to penetrate (unless there is an open wound or cut present). However, there are areas where the skin is much more permiable, like the mouth. Combined with this, microbes can survive in water quite easily. This means that by sharing a waterbottle, you are leaving yourself open for a whole range of nasties that would otherwise be quite difficult to contract. Sharing waterbottles with lots of people in a crowded setting is an epidemiologists nightmare.
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*oh for GOD'S sake*
Repeat: "Humourous Perspective"
*Spot the melbourne-ite with absolutely NO sense of humour.*
 
I always share my water bottles.
But I'm tricky
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When ever i have a drink I'll never take my eyes off the dj, I'll always look past people, drink really quickly, then conseal the bottle in my pocket again. And if possible i save someone an inch of water and leave it with them.
Unless I'm pilling, then everyone gets there fair share
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You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are.
If you want to get anywhere you'll have to run much faster.
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Oh for GOD'S sake #K9#! Not everything posted is a attack on your personally held *witty* views... Don't flatter yourself buddy! Dayum, what do you mean 'no sense of humour?' I mean, it took me at least five minutes to drag my laughing carcass off the floor so I could write that last post... Jeez. I hate to keep the thread on topic but, hey.
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Hey thoth,
Just remember when your sweat glands are open releasing water and you rub up against another sweaty guy/girl it is actually QUIET easy to become infected through the skin.You really have more of a chance contracting a virus/hepititis than from sharing water.Well technically sweat is still water but your not drinking the sweat.Just food for thought.
Look 4 me at clubs Im the 1 with the
DRY-AS-A-BONE Trenchcoat on LMFAO!!!
 
Stress less Bitch1 there is no need for the drizabone, the skin really is primarly all you need. Sweating is also good incoporated into the immune system.
The skin is an effective physical barrier by being both tough (keratin resists the digestive enzymes of invading bacteria) and poisonous (certain fatty acids are toxic to bacteria as are secretions from sweat and oil glands which lower the pH of the skin somewhere between 3 and 5a hostile environment for most pathogens). I would not be too concerned about catching something by rubbing up against them
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Well, I just got over tonsilitis, and I got it from *somewhere*. And no, noone I know in 'normal life' has it. And yes, tonsilitis is contagious. A water bottle is my prime suspect.
Be careful peeps.
 
I'd hate to think how many people I'd share my water bottle with over the course of the night.
However, I've been doing it for 2 years and never caught anything (that I know of
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As someone else said theres so many other ways of contracting diseases/cold/etc and when u think of what dangerous stuff could be in the pills we take, sharing water bottles doesnt really concern me.
 
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